Accenture’s 2011 Technology Vision report identifies eight trends that will drive the future of IT. According to Accenture, the IT in future will be dominated by data, with social platforms evolving as a new source of business intelligence, and cloud computing delivering on IT's role as a driver of business growth.

The Guardian features a great in depth article about Wolfram Alpha and Stephen Wolfram, the man behind it. Wolfram Alpha, as he puts it, is a computational knowledge engine. Wolfram Alpha was not designed as a search engine but as a "answer machine". But how can a machine produce useful answers - that is, when user don't just type in keywords to search for?